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Seed monopolies: Who controls the world's food supply? Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of adapting to climate change are threatening food security. Seed sovereignty activists want to reclaim the right to plant. More than half of the global seed market is in the hands of just a few corporations For thousands of years of human agriculture, the intrinsic nature of a seed — the capacity to reproduce itself — prevented it from being easily commodified. Grown and resown by farmers, seeds were freely exchanged and shared.  All that changed in ...

news Seed monopolies: Who controls the world's food supply? dw.com 3 hrs ago Charli Shield Seed laws criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops that stand a better chance of adapting to climate change are threatening food security. Seed sovereignty activists want to reclaim the right to plant. © Frank May/dpa/picture alliance More than half of the global seed market is in the hands of just a few corporations For thousands of years of human agriculture, the intrinsic nature of a seed — the capacity to reproduce itself — prevented it from being easily commodified. Gr...

Adversity was something Inge knew a lot about. Maarten Holl/Stuff Inge Woolf in 2008, the year after she opened the New Zealand Holocaust Centre. Married to Ron Woolf, she had to deal with his sudden death in 1987, when he was photographing Wellington from a helicopter. Ron was at the height of a distinguished career in photography and his death was a major story at the time. The accident, which also resulted in the deaths of Peter Button and Dion Savage, could easily have led to the end of the business. A determined businesswoman, Inge kept Woolf Photography going, even doing some of the...